300,000 Cash for the grand prize winner

2nd prize winner will get P250,000 cash,

3rd prize winner P200,000 cash

while non-winning contingents will take home P100,000 each.

The festival, considered one of the highlights of the city’s fiesta celebration, starts with a mass at the chapel of Barangay Punta Maria early morning on the 7th of September.

The image of the Blessed Virigin Mary is then taken to Borongan Port through a fluvial parade and paraded around the city proper.

Competing contingents then gather at the city plaza to perform their re-enactment of the story of the Padul-ong or how the Blessed Virgin Mary is traditionally believed to have travelled from Portugal to Borongan City and how her interventions helped shape the culture and faith of Boronganons.

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